Students at Launceston College will be returning to Uganda in 2020 to work with their partner school, Bunjakko Island Vocational School. This will be our third visit and will continue the work already completed to support the students and staff there. We have helped support the school in many ways over the years, including building […]
Huge congratulations to our Awards winners. More to follow… The Sir Kenneth Grange Award for Design Technology Jonathan Henwood The Sir Michael Gregory Award for Design Technology Alice Barriball The Arvon Award for English Jenny Davis The Falmouth School of Writing and Journalism Award for English Shannon Heal The Prof. Grenville Davey Award for Expressive […]
Year 11 students visited Plymouth today as part of their GCSE Geography course. Our fieldwork investigation was to investigate the inequalities in housing between Colin Campbell Court, Fin Street and West Hoe Road. Students conducted bi polar surveys and took photographs to collect data to test their hypotheses. Students will follow up this data collection […]
Bernice McCabe OBE, who sadly passed away in February this year, was the founding co-director of the Prince’s Teaching Institute and believed in the transformative power of inspiring subject teaching. This Award has been created to remember Bernice and to promote and celebrate excellence in subject leadership in schools and will be awarded annually to […]
Apple bobbing for Halloween. In the hall at lunchtime, on the 31st October 2019, LEW did apple bobbing for our Trevithick charity, Freddie’s fund. We got as many people as we could to come and take part. We had fun watching people try to pick up an apple in a bucket full of water with […]
Launceston College students Daisy-Mai Wade-Hall and Oliver Midwinter are busy rehearsing with The RSC and their director Robin Belfield, for a performance of The Merchant of Venice, being performed at Launceston College on October 30th. They are both part of the RSC’s Next Generation project which gives talented young people the chance to explore a […]
The first house competition of the year – The Great European Bake Off – went down a treat with members of the MFL department who had the pleasure of tasting entries that represented all four corners of the continent. With the date for the entries coinciding with the European Day of Languages, a day set […]
Thursday 14th November – 6pm to 8pm Launceston College Sixth Form Open Evening is your chance to look around a Sixth Form with 100% success rate in both exams and progression to Higher education, Employment or Training. Investigate the range of courses we offer, the extra curricula opportunities including, sport, music, drama and the support […]
As part of the extra curricula opportunities available to our Sixth Form students, the students took part in the first of many sporting challenges. This time it was football, but over the year they will include netball, dodge ball, tag rugby and many others. Everyone had great fun whether they were playing or supporting their […]
As a result of sudden and unexpected family circumstances, we regret that Principal Bryan Maywood will be taking a leave of absence. Jenn Burn will be taking on the role of interim Principal while Bryan is with his family. We feel both Mr and Mrs Maywood’s absence in our school community and our thoughts and […]
24 Jan 2020
Three professional cookery students have just returned from a short visit to one of our partner schools in Porto, Read more →
22 Jan 2020
Launceston College U15 girls have reached the for the first time. The comprehensively beat Liskeard and Bude Haven College’s. Read more →
17 Jan 2020
This year, our return to College following the Christmas break fell on the 6th January, which coincided perfectly with Read more →